Conscious Quote by Ekoplekz

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes…

— Lupe Fiasco

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.

— Dizzee Rascal

The albums I did around that time probably wouldn't have been the same without Ecstacy. The first three Soft Cell albums... were all really…

— Marc Almond

The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do…

— Joss Stone

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing.…

— Joanna Newsom

I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.

— Teena Marie

Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.

— RZA

It used to be that labels would spend two or three or four albums developing a new artist before they threw in the towel…

— Lari White

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.

— Squarepusher

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit…

— Phil Collins

I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it…

— Trent Reznor

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years…

— Judy Collins